Deborah Lee James: “All discussions that I have been privy to, Mr. Visclosky, suggest to me that we are going to absolutely stand behind a…”

Providing that transportation infrastructure, properly maintaining and sustaining it, is a core Federal responsibility.

We made assumptions that we wouldn't be using Army forces in Europe the way we used to, we made assumptions that we wouldn't go back into Iraq--and here we are back in Iraq, here we are worried about Russia again.

There have been actions and then there have been investments, I will say, on the part of China and Russia which are very worrying to the United States.

If we return to sequestration in fiscal year 2018, this will exacerbate the readiness problem and set us even farther back.